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Yes, ideally the total shape of the skeg and rudder should form the NACA shape. Just like most aircraft rudders.

A proper hydrodynamic shape will have a few advantages over a flat plate, including: A much higher stall angle Lower drag Higher lift...

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point out what you consider to be complete drivel so the posters viev can be defended and the OP can evaluite for himself what i...

Sooner or later a yard will lower all boats onto the front or rear of a keel to some extent. They have no way to know the loads are...

Don't confuse picking up weed on retrieval with problems in weed on the bottom. Weed on an anchor at the surface is irrelevant to...

As you say, there is weed, and there is kelp. Some thin weed is often unavoidable, but don't anchor in kelp. A fishfinder will easily...

Some years back I crewed on a 33' trimaran and had the task of 'anchoring' in Oban Bay, awaiting our runners, at the start of the...

You can look at work done by Professor Knox as just one example. His tests included various sizes of popular anchors. His conclusion...

I still have mine 😀

Lewmar anchor sizing tables are optimistic. Unfortunately, if you want to sell anchors to boatbuilders (which is where Lewmar has been...

These comments are spot on. A genuine Bruce anchor has some complex twists in the geometry of the flukes (see photo below)...

Indeed. We had a nice lesson of this in the Ría today. We anchored yesterday, and the first drop held, as it always does. Bottom is sand...

It was called the Flook anchor. It was quite popular in Australia at one stage: